"Long wrong climate science disinformer Roy Spencer has published another deeply flawed article. That ainât news. What is news is that the deniers have a couple of new tricks up their sleeves.
First, the disinformers have figured out they should focus on journals that donât seem to have a very deep understanding of climate science. In May, it was a paper in a statistics journal, which was ultimately withdrawn because of âevidence of plagiarism and complaints about the peer-review process.â This time itâs an article in the open-access Remote Sensing co-authored by Spencer.
It bears repeating that Spencer committed one of the most egregious blunders in the history of remote sensing â committing multiple errors in analyzing the satellite data and creating one of the enduring denier myths, that the satellite data didnât show the global warming that the surface temperature data did.
We now know, of course, that the satellite data set confirms that the climate is warming , and indeed at very nearly the same rate as indicated by the surface temperature records. Now, thereâs nothing wrong with making mistakes when pursuing an innovative observational method, but Spencer and Christy sat by for most of a decade allowing â indeed encouraging â the use of their data set as an icon for global warming skeptics. They committed serial errors in the data analysis, but insisted they were right and models and thermometers were wrong. They did little or nothing to root out possible sources of errors, and left it to others to clean up the mess, as has now been done.
So after that history, weâre supposed to savor all Royâs new cookery?
Thatâs an awful lot to swallow.
Amazingly (or not), the âserial errors in the data analysisâ all pushed the (mis)analysis in the same, wrong direction. Coincidence? You decide. But it remains hilarious that the deniers and delayers still quote Spencer lovingly, but to this day dismiss real science no matter how much it has been vindicated and verified by subsequent independent research."
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/...-latest-bunk-by-denier-roy-spencer/?mobile=nc